Securities Registration: Employee Benefit Plan (s-8)
September 30 2019 - 05:20PM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
As filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission on September 30, 2019
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Outlook
Therapeutics, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in
its charter)
Delaware
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38-3982704
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(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation
or
organization)
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(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
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7 Clarke Drive
Cranbury, New Jersey
(Address of Principal Executive
Offices)
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08512
(Zip Code)
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2015 Equity Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plan)
Lawrence A. Kenyon
President, Chief Executive Officer and
Chief Financial Officer
Outlook Therapeutics, Inc.
7 Clarke Drive
Cranbury, New Jersey 08512
(Name and address of agent for service)
(609) 619-3990
(Telephone number, including area code,
of agent for service)
Copies to:
Yvan-Claude Pierre
Marianne C. Sarrazin
Pia Kaur
Cooley LLP
55 Hudson Yards
New York, New York 10001
(212) 479-6000
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated
filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions
of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging
growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer ¨
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Accelerated filer ¨
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Non-accelerated filer x
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Smaller reporting company x
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Emerging growth company x
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If
an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for
complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title
of securities
to
be registered
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Amount
to
be
registered(1)
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Proposed
maximum
offering
price per
share(3)
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Proposed
maximum
aggregate
offering
price(3)
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Amount
of
registration
fee
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Common
Stock, par value $0.01 per share, reserved for issuance pursuant to the 2015 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended
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1,500,000(2)
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$
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1.45
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$
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2,175,000
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$
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263.61
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(1)
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Pursuant to Rule 416(a) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), this Registration Statement shall also cover any additional shares of common stock, par value $0.01 (the “Common Stock”) of Outlook Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Registrant”), that become issuable under the 2015 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (“2015 EIP”), set forth herein by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar transaction effected that results in an increase to the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock.
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(2)
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Represents 1,500,000 shares of Common Stock added to the shares authorized for issuance under the 2015 EIP pursuant to an amendment of the 2015 EIP approved by the Registrant’s stockholders on September 12, 2019.
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(3)
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Estimated
in accordance with Rule 457(h) under the Securities Act solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee on the
basis of the average of the high ($1.48) and low ($1.41) sale prices of the Registrant’s Common Stock as reported on
The Nasdaq Capital Market on September 27, 2019, which is a date within five business days prior to filing this Registration
Statement.
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EXPLANATORY
NOTE
The Registrant is filing this registration
statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) for the purpose of registering an additional 1,500,000
shares of its Common Stock issuable to eligible persons under the 2015 EIP, which Common Stock is in addition to the shares of
Common Stock registered on the Registrant’s Form S-8s filed on May 13, 2016 (File No. 333-211362), February 15, 2017 (File
No. 333-216081), February 15, 2018 (File No. 333-223064) and February 14, 2019 (File No. 333-229685) (the “Prior Form
S-8s”).
PART II
ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE
Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form
S-8, the contents of the Prior Form S-8s filed by the Registrant are incorporated by reference herein. In addition, the following
documents filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) are incorporated
by reference into this Registration Statement:
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(a)
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The Registrant’s latest annual report on Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on December 18, 2018;
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(b)
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The
Registrant’s quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, filed with the SEC on February
14, 2019, May 15, 2019 and August
14, 2019;
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(c)
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The Registrant’s current reports on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on October 26, 2018, October 30, 2018, November 9, 2018, December 6, 2018, December 18, 2018, January 22, 2019, March 5, 2019, March 18, 2019, April 5, 2019, April 26, 2019, June 10, 2019, June 14, 2019, June 28, 2019, July 1, 2019, July 24, 2019 and September 13, 2019;
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(d)
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The description of the Registrant’s Common Stock contained in the Registrant’s registration statement on Form 8-A filed with the SEC on April 29, 2016, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description; and
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(e)
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All documents, reports and definitive proxy or information
statements filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, (other than current reports furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form 8-K and exhibits furnished on such form that
relate to such items) on or after the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment
to this Registration Statement that indicates that all securities offered have been sold or that deregisters all securities then
remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the
date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference
herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement
contained herein or in any subsequently filed document that also is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or
supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded,
to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
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ITEM 8. EXHIBITS
Exhibit
Number
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Description
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4.1
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Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s current report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on May 19, 2016).
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4.2
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Certificate of Designation of Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock of the Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on July 19, 2018).
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4.3
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Certificate of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on December 6, 2018).
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4.4
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Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Registrant’s current report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on May 19, 2016).
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4.5
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Amendment to the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s current report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on November 29, 2016).
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5.1*
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Opinion of Cooley LLP
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23.1*
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Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
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23.2*
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Consent of Cooley LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
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24.1
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Power of Attorney (see signature page)
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99.1
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2015 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 13, 2019).
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99.2
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Forms of agreements and award grant notices under 2015 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Registrant’s registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-209011), filed with the SEC on January 15, 2016).
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________________
* Filed herewith.
ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS
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The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
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(a)
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To file, during any period in which offers or sales are
being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
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(i)
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To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3)
of the Securities Act;
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(ii)
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To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually
or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would
not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be
reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume
and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration
Fee” table in the effective registration statement.
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(iii)
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To include any material information with respect to the
plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the
registration statement;
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provided,
however, that paragraphs (a)(i) and (a)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective
amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant
to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.
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(b)
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That,
for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed
to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered herein, and the offering of such securities at that
time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
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(c)
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To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
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2.
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The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for
purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the registrant’s annual report pursuant to
Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual
report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be
deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered herein, and the offering of such securities at that
time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
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3.
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Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under
the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification
is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or
controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel
the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication
of such issue.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing
on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized,
in the City of Cranbury, New Jersey, on September 30, 2019.
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Outlook Therapeutics, Inc.
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By:
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/s/ Lawrence A. Kenyon
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Lawrence A. Kenyon
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President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer
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POWER
OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person
whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Lawrence A. Kenyon and Ralph H. Thurman, and each of them, his or
her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or
her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this
Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority
to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents
and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents,
or each of them, or their or his or her substitutes or substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature
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Title
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Date
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/s/ Ralph H. Thurman
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Executive Chairman
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September 30, 2019
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Ralph H. Thurman
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/s/ Lawrence A. Kenyon
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Secretary and Director
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September 30, 2019
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Lawrence A. Kenyon
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(Principal Executive and Accounting and Financial Officer)
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/s/ Yezan Haddadin
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Director
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September 30, 2019
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Yezan Haddadin
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/s/ Kurt J. Hilzinger
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Director
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September 30, 2019
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Kurt J. Hilzinger
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/s/ Faisal Sukhtian
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Director
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September 30, 2019
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Faisal Sukhtian
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Director
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Joe Thomas
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